A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”, May 16, 1767)
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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
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S’il n’existait pas Dieu il faudrait l’inventer.” (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)
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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one
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